Recreation Resource Management Major (BS, HBS)	Print Version
	College of Forestry | Forest Ecosystems and Society

The BS in Recreation Resource Management prepares students to meet the challenges of providing quality recreation opportunities while maintaining the ecological integrity of natural resources. The curriculum produces students proficient in recreation behavior, recreation planning and management, environmental interpretation, wilderness management, resource economics, communication, and resource analysis and policy. The SAF-accredited curriculum provides a solid mix of physical and social sciences, resource management (including wildlife, range, and forestry), and quantitative methods.

Completion of an approved option or minor is required for the Recreation Resource Management degree. Declaration of the option or minor should be done by the end of the sophomore year. Courses for an option or minor are in addition to the core curriculum. Some courses may require prerequisites not included in the core curriculum.  Choice of option or minor must be approved by an academic advisor.

Currently approved minors include Business and Entrepreneurship, Fisheries and Wildlife, Forest Management (27 credits required), Natural Resources, Philosophy, Rangeland Ecology and Management, and Resource Economics.

Courses required for an option may not count toward a minor. Students may not take an option and a minor from the same field of study.

The following nine options are only available to students majoring in Recreation Resource Management: 

1. Cultural Resource Management
2. Environmental Resource Interpretation
3. Forest Resources
4. Law Enforcement
5. Park Landscapes
6. Public Policy
7. Resource Planning
8. Sociology
9. Tourism

In addition to the options listed, students may work with an academic advisor to develop an individualized option (an individualized option is not transcript visible).

All students pursuing the BS in Recreation Resource Management degree must earn grades of "C–" or better in all required forestry courses (with FE, FOR, FS, WSE course designators) or approved substitutions for majors, minors and options.

First Year (44)

Sophomore Year (45–47)

Natural Resource Systems Block (Choose one course for 3–4)
ANTH 480. Topics in Applied Anthropology: "Non-Timber Forest Products Culture and Management" (4)
CSS 205. *Soils: Sustainable Ecosystems (4)
ES 399. Special Topics: Native American Resource Management ONLY (3)
FE 430. Watershed Processes (4)
FOR 441. Silviculture Principles (4)
FOR/RNG 436. Wildland Fire Science and Management (4)
FOR/FW/RNG 446. Wildland Fire Ecology (3)
FS/FW 453. Forest Management and Wildlife Conservation (3)
FW 251. Principles of Fish and Wildlife Conservation (3)
FW 479. Wetlands and Riparian Ecology (3)
GEO 307. *National Park Geology and Preservation (3)
GEO 420. Geography of Resource Use (3)
RNG 341. Rangeland Ecology and Management (3)
RNG 355. Desert Watershed Management (3)
RNG 421. Wildland Restoration and Ecology (4)
RNG 455. Riparian Ecology and Management (3)

Junior Year (44–46)

Technical/Field Skills Block (Choose one course for 2–4)
ANTH 430. Topics in Archaeology (topics must be pre-approved) (1–4)
ANTH 497. Archaeological Field Methods (3)
COMM 280. Media Communication in the Information Age (3)
CS 195. Introduction to Web Authoring (4)
FE 308. Forest Surveying (4)
FE 357. GIS and Forest Engineering Applications (3)
FOR/FW 445. Ecological Restoration (4)
FW 255. Field Sampling of Fish and Wildlife (3)
FW 426. Coastal Ecology and Resource Management (HMSC campus) (5)
GEO 301. Map and Image Interpretation (4)
GEO 352. *Oregon: Geology, Place, and Life on the Ring of Fire (4)
GEO 360. Cartography (4)
GEO 444. Remote Sensing (4)
GEO 465. Geographic Information Systems and Science (4)

Senior Year (49)

Students are required to complete 6 months of work experience. 

• 3 credits from the Communications and Negotiations Block listed below.
• 3–4 credits from the Research/Analytical Techniques Block listed below.
• 6–8 credits from the Social Science and Policy Block listed below.

Communications and Negotiations Block (Choose one course for 3 credits)
COMM 316. Advanced Persuasion (3)
COMM 322. Small-Group Problem Solving (3)
COMM 324. Communication in Organizations (3)
COMM 326. Intercultural Communication (3)
COMM 328. Nonverbal Communication (3)
COMM 432. Gender and Communication (3)
COMM 440. Theories of Conflict and Conflict Management (3)
COMM 442. Bargaining and Negotiation Processes (3)

Research/Analytical Techniques Block (Choose one course for 3–4 credits)
ANTH 422. Historic Materials Analysis (3)
ANTH 430. Topics in Archaeology (1–4)
ANTH 490. Topics in Methodology (1–4)
ANTH 492. Archaeological Laboratory Methods (1–3)
COMM 414. Communication Research Methods (3)
ES 453. Ethnohistory Methodology (3)
FOR 330. Forest Resource Economics I (4)
FOR 457. Techniques for Forest Resource Analysis (4)
FOR/FW 445. Ecological Restoration (4)
FW 426. Coastal Ecology and Resource Management (HMSC campus) (5)
GEO 350 *Population Geography (3)
GEO 444. Remote Sensing (4)
GEO 465. Geographic Information Systems and Science (4)
H 490. *Systems Thinking and Practice (4)
HSTS 419. *^Studies in Scientific Controversy: Method and Practice of (3)
RNG 450. Landscape Ecology and Analysis (3)
SOC 418. Quantitative Research Methods (4)
ST 411. Methods of Data Analysis (4)

Social Science and Policy Block (Choose two courses for 6–8 credits)
AG 301. *Ecosystem Science of Pacific NW Indians (3)
ANTH 435. Cultural Resources: Policy and Procedures (3)
ANTH 477. Ecological Anthropology (4)
ANTH 478. Anthropology of Tourism (4)
ANTH 481. *Natural Resources and Community Values (3)
AREC 253. *Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics (4)
AREC 353. Public Land Statutes and Policy (4)
AREC 432. Environmental Law (4)
ES 444. Native American Law: Tribes, Treaties, and the US (3)
FOR 462. Natural Resource Policy and Law (3)
FW 340. *Multicultural Perspectives in Natural Resources (3)
FW 350. *Endangered Species, Society and Sustainability (3)
FW 421. Aquatic Biological Invasions (HMSC campus) (4)
GEO 335. *Introduction to Water Science and Policy (3)
PS 474. Natural Resource Policy and Bureaucratic Politics (4)
PS 475. Environmental Politics and Policy (Distance Ed only) (4)
PS 477. International Environmental Politics and Policy (4)
RNG 477. *Agroforestry (3)
SOC 454. *Leisure and Culture (4)
SOC 475. Rural Sociology (4)
SOC 480. *Environmental Sociology (4)
SOC 481. *Society and Natural Resources (4)
SOC 485. *Consensus and Natural Resources (Distance Ed only) (3)
WS 450. *Ecofeminism (3)

Natural Resource Systems block (Choose one course for 3 or 4 credits)
ANTH 480. Topics in Applied Anthropology: "Non-Timber Forest Products Culture and Management" (4)
CSS 205. *Soils: Sustainable Ecosystems (4)
ES 399. Special Topics: Native American Resource Management (3)
FE 430. Watershed Processes (4)
FOR 441. Silviculture Principles (FOR 240 and FOR 141 or FOR 241) (4)
FOR/RNG 436. Wildland Fire Science and Management (4)
FOR/FW/RNG 446. Wildland Fire Ecology (3)
FS/FW 453. Forest Management and Wildlife Conservation (FOR 240 or FOR 341) (3)
FW 251. Principles of Fish and Wildlife Conservation (3)
FW 479. Wetlands and Riparian Ecology (3)
GEO 307. *National Park Geology and Preservation (3)
GEO 420. Geography of Resource Use (3)
RNG 341. Rangeland Ecology and Management (3)
RNG 355. Desert Watershed Management (3)
RNG 421. Wildland Restoration and Ecology (4)
RNG 455. Riparian Ecology and Management (3)

Technical/Field Skills block (Choose one course for 3 credits)
ANTH 430. Topics in Archaeology (topics must be pre-approved) (1–4)
ANTH 497. Archaeological Field Methods (3)
COMM 280. Media Communication in the Information Age (3)
CS 195. Introduction to Web Authoring (4)
FE 308. Forest Surveying (4)
FE 357. GIS and Forest Engineering Applications (3)
FOR/FW 445. Ecological Restoration (4)
FW 255. Field Sampling of Fish and Wildlife (3)
FW 426. Coastal Ecology and Resource Management (HMSC campus) (5)
GEO 301. Map and Image Interpretation (4)
GEO 360. Cartography (4)
GEO 352. *Oregon: Geology, Place, and Life on the Ring of Fire (4)
GEO 444. Remote Sensing (4)
GEO 465. Geographic Information Systems and Science (4)

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